Sea food washing machine



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1 Claim. (c1. rief-1200)v The present inventionV relates to new and useful improvements in machines for washing fresh crabmeat and othersea food products to prepare the'same for packing, processing,l canning and shipping, and the invention has for its primary object to provide a tank adapted to receive the sea food, together with saltwater for washing the food and providing means for moving theV sea food over a series of baiiles to separateA particles of shells and other foreign substances therefrom' and for removing the cleaned food fromrthe tank over a discharge chute into a collectionV receptacle.

.A further object of the invention is to provide a ree-circulation system for lthe salt Water employed in cleaning the food.

A still further object is to provide anapparasupported on a frame 'or platform I3 adjacent one side of thetank. f

V.An overflowy receptacle I 4 issllpllortedA on a Vframe I5 Yat the' discharge end of the tank 5 iinmediately beneath the chute I0, andan overflow pipe.. I6 extends fromthe tank IZfadjacentits upper portiont'o the receptacle Ill. A pipe Il has one end projectingupwardly to Y the receptacle I4 and extends Aunoler. the tank 5 transversely extending spray pipe IS.

tus of thischaracter of simple and practical conl struction, which is eicient and reliable in performance, relatively inexpensive. to manufacture and maintain in operation, and otherwise welladapted for the purposes for which the same is intended Other objects and advantages'reside in the details oi construction'and operation as more `fully hereinafter described and claimed', reference'being had to the accompanying drawings yiorn'ling part hereof, wherein like numerals refer to like parts throughout andin which: Y

Figure 1 is a side elevational View. Figure 2 is a top plan view, and Figure 3 is an end elevational View.

Y journaled on the frame Illtransversely beneath Referring now to the drawings in detail, wherec.

in for the purpose of illustration I have disclosed a preferred embodiment of the invention, ther numeral designates 'a tank of substantially rec- Y tangular shapeopen at its top and havingan inclined bottom 6 provided with a drain pipe 'I-adjacent its lower end. y Positioned in the tankVA and extending transversely thereof `are a plurality of baffles 8, thev bailles being inclined from a vertical planeV toward the deeper end oi?` the tank and with the vlower .edges of the baiiles spaced above 'the bottom of the tank and lwith the upper edg'esofV the baiiies disposed below the top of the tank, as shown to advantage in Figure 1 of the drawings.

The deeper end of the tank constitutes thejin- I I take end into which crabmeat'to be cleaned is deposited and in the opposite end of the tank at its upper edge is provided a notch 9 communicating with a chute Il! secured to the outside of the tank.

The tank is suitably supported on a frame or platform II and a salt water supply tank I2 is and upwardly at the intake end thereof and into .the end wall of the tank vfor connection with a A pump I9 is interposed inv thepipe drive 2|.'` f

' A belt 22 is c extends over apulley 23'secured onfa shaft 24 the tank 5 adjacent itscolischargeV end', the shaft 24 also Vhaving a pulleyV 25 secured thereto which' drives a belt 'leading vtoa pulley 2. secured on one end oa transversely extending shaft 28'jourf`1 ,c lnaled in bearings29 on the upper edge of the tanki5. Secured'to the shaft 26 is a'paddle wheel f S0 Idisposed immediately in ladvance of the notchl *i 9 and arranged with .its blades projecting into I Y Ythe water-in the tank 'to inove the -crabmeat floating on .the surfaceof thefwate'r through the notch 9 into the 'chute' Ill for deposit intolth'e receptacle I4. Y l Y lArr'etur'n pipe 3l extends from thebottom ofthe receptacle'ld to the'tankI-'the pipel having a valve`32 therein and interposed in the pipe be- Y Y. tween the .valve andthe tank I2 is, a pump 33 A driven by a belt r34 .from a pulley 35 alsosecured VL tothe shaft 24. The receptacle' I4 is also'provided Awith a vdrain pipe 38, "both'of 'the drain I pipes 'land 38 having valves 'St and 3'I,respec tively, therein.Y Y

.In theoperation of the device, the crabrneatv is depositedin the tank Bland the tank is lled Agrit and other heavy particles settle tothe bottom of thetankg the paddle wheel '3 0 moving thefv crabmeat 'toward the `discharge end of thev tank andthrougn the noten s into thechute lo where g the same `is deposited in the-receptacle I4. 'Any excess water` discharged into Vthe receptacle Il, which Y isdriven by an electric motor 20 mounted on thel lower portion of the frame I Iby means of a belt f also drivenvfrom the purn'pfllll.andi Y the tank l2 wiu'be then returned to the A cleaning apparatus-*of the classi described described Vthe invention what I comprising a tank, baiiies arranged in the tank, an'Y overflow chute at one endof theV tank, an 013!)`v receptacle beneath said `chute,"a paddievwheel I journaied at the upper edge of theftankv adjacent the chute and projecting into the Waterin the tank for moving material floating on ther surface ofthe Water tinto the chute for deposit intoY the receptacle, .a reservoir adjacent the-tank, a pipeY extending from the receptacle to the tank, a spray pipe `in the tankrconnected to said pipe, a, pump for returning Water from ,the receptacle through said pipe into the tank, a pipe leading from the receptacle to the reservoir, an overow pipe leading -from the reservoir to the receptacle, a' pump in said 'second-named' pipe-aand a" motor operatively connected with the paddle Wheel and said CHRrs'rY B. NELSON. 

